I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

A ‘biomass’ man lives by his instincts

Wisdom from God brings peace and assurance to your heart.

Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others